By KOHEI HIGASHITANI/ Staff Writer
August 13, 2020 at 07:00 JST
An oil painting of Hibagon is displayed at an inn in Shobara, Hiroshima Prefecture. The inn’s former owner saw the beast and asked a painter to draw the creature based on his memory. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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